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EDWARD W. DODGE, OF AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES I. MCLAUGHLIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MARKING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION, forming part of Letters Patent No. 513,897, dated January 30, 1894. Application filed April 3, 1893. Serial No. 468,839. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD W. DODGE, of Augusta, in the county of Richmond andState of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Marking Devices, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to hand devices for marking or writing on linen, garments, and other goods or articles, with indelible or colored ink, indirectly or through the agency of an inked ribbon or fabric and style or stylus;

and the invention consists in a novel framed and constructed marking device for this purpose, substantially as hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out in the claims, the same virtually forming a transfer slate, and the general term slate will here be used in describing it.

' Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of a transfer slate or marking device embodying my invention, and as in use or in the act of being written upon and markinga fabric or article beneath it. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of said slate; and Fig. 3 a transverse section thereof upon the line 3-3 in Fig. 2. Fig.4 is a longitudinal section, upon a larger scale, on the line 4--4= in Fig. 5, of the framed inking ribbon fitted to slide in or out of an outer case; Fig. 5 a transverse section of the same upon the line 55 in Fig. at. Fig. 6 is a similar longitudinal section to Fig. 4, but showing a self-acting inking roller applied to the outer case for inking the surface of the framed inking ribbon; and Fig. 7 is a transverse section upon the line 7-7, in Fig. 6.

In Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings, A indi: cates a piece of cloth or other suitable fiexi ble fabric forming the ink or inking ribbon,

which is bound and held stretched on its margins by a binding b of metal or other suitable stiff material lapping over both its upper and under surfaces, so that when charged or surfaced with marking or colored ink and. laid on the article B, to be marked, its lower sur- 5'0 face lying over said article will be kept from 'to re-ink the ribbon.

contact with the article to mark or soil the same, till pressure is brought by writing with a stylus O, on" the upper surface of the ribbon or fabric A'. This bound ink or inking ribbon forms a convenienthand marking device or slate to which the marking or colored ink may be supplied by a brush or otherwise.

In Figs. 4 and 5, the inkribbon or fabric A, is only shown as having the binding b applied to its upper surface, the ribbon A, being glued or cemented to the under side of saidbindin g or frame, so that when the ribbon becomes stretched out of shape from being written upon, or. when it becomes gummed,

torn or worn, it may readily be removed and be replaced. by a new ribbon. In this case, the stiff binding 1), carrying the ink ribbon is fitted to slide longitudinally within and in and out of an open outer frame or case b, which projecting beneath the inked ribbon keeps the latter from lying on the article to be marked, or soiling it, excepting when the stylus is applied to write upon the upper surface of the ribbon. This makes the marking device or slate a perpetual one by drawing out the frame I) from the outer frame or case b, and simply renewing the ink ribbon as required. In such instance the entire framing inolosing the ink ribbon and retaining it slightly raised above the whole structure is simply divided into two horizontal sections b b, instead of being made of a single piece or binding, as in Figs. 1, 2 and 3.

In Fig. 6 of the drawings, substantially the same construction is shown as in Figs. 4 and 5, but the outer frame or case b carries at or near its one end an ink roller D,which serves to fully supply at all times ink to the upper surface of the ribbon A, it only being necessary to draw out said ribbon with its frame I) from the case b, and slide the same back again into said case whenever it is necessary This is done by contact of the upper surface of the ribbon with the ink roller D, which is suitably charged or smeared with ink. Said roller may have its bearings in cheeks d set slightly inward, on each side of the case b. In this way the marking slate becomes a self-inker. The end of the case or frame I) opposite to the ink roller is formed with an upturned end 11 to give a better hold of said case when removing or inking the slate.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A hand marking device or slate comprising an open frame and an ink ribbon or fabric stretched within the frame above its lower face and both surfaces of the ribbon or fabric being exposed, substantially as set forth.

2. A hand marking device comprising an open frame having ways in its sides between its upper and lower faces and the removable ribbon or fabric extending across the frame EDWARD W. DODGE.

Witnesses:

W. M. DUNBAR, THos. HAMILL. 

